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Falling Down (1993)

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• Continuity: When D-Fens shoots out the phone booth, a man in the background dives off of his bike twice.
  
  
• Continuity: Bill's hands on his wife's face.
  
  
• Continuity: The window in D-fens' car at the beginning can't roll down, but he steers the car off the road by pushing the car and putting his hand through the window onto the wheel.
  
  

• Continuity: In the burger bar, D-Fens holds a burger in a wrapper. When he turns around to show it to the other customers the wrapper is missing.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bill's wife leads the lady police officer out of the house, she turns, closes, and maybe locks the gate to her front yard. When Bill finally arrives, when his wife leaves the house from the back door, he runs through an open gate up to the front door.
  
  
• Continuity: In D-Fens' home videos, there is a close up of his wife's face while she is crying. Her mascara is running, then not running (and not smeared).
  
  
• Continuity: At the drive-by shooting, the driver turns the wheel to the left to avoid crashing into another car, but the car turns to the right.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During opening scene the Steadicam operator is reflected in a car
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening scene, the woman in the "Garfield" car putting on lipstick in the side-view mirror disappears for one shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the first shot of the opening scene, if you look closely, you can see that the driver's side front door of Bill Foster's car was taken out in order for the camera to move freely out of the car.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the opening scene, when the camera first pans onto the car with the Garfield doll, two big flat light-diffusers can be seen in the half-open rear window. If you look even closer, the boom mike and some people are visible standing behind the diffusers.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Visible in Prendergast's car window reflection at the Koren's convenience store.
  
  
• Continuity: Artillery shell is still visible inside the rocket launcher immediately after being fired.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: Prendergast's revolver clearly rotates to the empty chamber when he fires.
  
  
• Continuity: Products seen on lowest shelf during the fight between D-FENS and Mr. Lee change from chips to cereal to maxi-pads and also change position.
  
  
• Continuity: When D-fens is on the gang's property fixing his shoe his socks are black. Earlier in the film they can be seen to be white.
  
  
• Continuity: In the burger scene, after Bill shoots, an old man tries to escape. At the beginning of the next scene, you can see the same actor, dressed differently, in another restaurant. Both events are supposedly occurring simultaneously.
  
  
• Continuity: Bill buys a snow globe, and the vendor wraps it in newspapers for him. Later, when the neo-Nazi takes it out of the bag, it is unwrapped
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After D-Fens fired his missile under the pavement, the cameraman's sneaker and part of his leg is visible as he starts running for his shot.
  
  
• Continuity: The crack on Bill's right lens in the second half in the movie comes and goes.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: M-72 LAWs are unguided rockets, not heat seeking missiles like the neo-Nazi character implies. This may have been an intentional mistake by the film-makers for that character.
  
  
• Continuity: When shooting the phone booth, the man watching as happens in front of his eyes is changing hands from inside his pockets (in the long shot) to waving them around (the closer shot). There is no time between these shots to move his hands.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before the park scene when the people are getting on the crowded bus, you can see a black woman with shorts and a blue shirt all the way to the right get on the bus; you can see her in front of Bill as he tries to get on the bus, that is the top of her head as he gets bumped in the crowded line. However, in the next scene she is dancing in the park with a headphone radio.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bill Foster (D-FENS) is walking up to the Korean store owner's food mart, his socks are white. Throughout the rest of the movie, his socks are black.
  
  
• Factual errors: Prior to firing the M-72, D-FENS does not pull the safety out, hence he should not have been able to fire the rocket.
  
  

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